Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-01-29

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The Montana Legislature numbers
sixteen cattlemen among its members
eight i'll each branch thereby giving
them majority in the Council.
Sheriff Atwell left for Carson City this
morning With Robt. II. Gray who was
sentenced yesterday in the District
Coult to eight years III :he State Pris-
on.
So far rs regards merely the number
of appropriation bills PASSED at this
period OF the short session is concerned,
the work of this Congress is below the
average for the past ten years.
St. Louis Post. Dispatch (Dem. J.
The section mononiauiacs learn without
del"y that the equal rights gurrunt ed
tn the negro involve the right to vote
the Demucrutic ticket if lie wants to.
s. gebrush Stockman:-Hay is on
the Sc, $l0'now being the ruling price
i'll the stack, Sl5 delivered, ana SIC
baied. Dan Wheeler, few days since,
sold 260 tons of alfalfa hay i'll the STACK
at the former figure.
Post:-Sam Jones is preparing for
his visit here by attacking Boston. He
finds his wrrst!u with baked bean cul-
ture exceedingly bracing work, and he is
confident that by the time he is in cool
training he will not make an absolutely
lgnominious failure i'll tackiing oakland.
An irrigation canal is being built in
the Bruneuu Valley, which will cover
Az, 600 acres of land. 1t will be taken
out near Tie mouth of the Bruneau and
conveyed across Sunke river in iron
pipes. Rhode Island capitalists are ut
the head of the enterprise.
In the House of Representatives on
Thursday the Speaker announced as
unfinished business the river and Hnr.
hor bill. The bill was passel-yeas
l54, nays 9I-in the exlct form in
which II was reported from the Commit
tee Oh Rivers and Harbors.
Boston Herald (Ind.) -Th,re is plen-
ty of Money III Ms ,acnusets, out she
has never had ii millionaire candidate
for the United ST ties Senate at any Pc
Rod III her history, ant there is not
now the slightest encouragement for
any such candidate to present him
self.
Sacramento Bee:-We are informed
that near Pilot Hill, on The American,
III Ell Dorado couhty, Cpiuese by.
draulic clam is being worked with 200
inches OF water. DAY by day evidences
increase o! the IL ressity of passing bills
to declare hydraulic mining niisdr-
meauor.
Tunes. Reyiew:--A petition is in circu.
lntion, and will be presented to the
Board Of County Commission at
their next meeting, for an appropriation
to build bridge across the Owyhee ut
some point ut or near the De Frees
crossing. The improvement asked for is
much needed one and should be grant
ed by the Bonrd The petition has been
signed 10y nearly every taxpayer in
town
The bill to reimburse ex Superinten-
dent OF Public instruction &. S. Young
for travelling expenses during his term
of Office should pass. Professor Young
was indeintisabie iii his efforts TO in,-
prove our educational institutions, and
his forts have been coispicuously sue
cessful. He should be reimbursed for
moneys spent by him TO benefit the peo.
pie of the State.
The IsDEPESDEN heartily concurs in
the above remarks from the Day ton
News Reporter, and trusts that our Leg
islature will see that justice. is done to
one who spared neither pains nor ex-
pense in bshalf of the educational inte-
rests of tho State.
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